Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8809, Nicholas Fish, New York

SERVICE
New York
NUMBER
Fish, Nicholas Elizabeth
W 8809
{ B.L.W. 427-400-Maj. Issued July 9, 1790 No papers.
CONTENTS

302 New York City Elizabeth Fish widow of Nicholas Fish NY who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Major
Let to Hon. Fish 17 May 1853 " Same 15 Nov 1854 Since 6 Sept 1854
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 600 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. 3 rd February 1853 Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th day of May 1853 and sent to Hon. H. Fish U.S. Senator N.Y.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 27, 1840, Page 73 Vol. a,
1828

Act 1828 Sailed at Treason Cons with C.W. & W. File # 8.809

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I, Nicholas Fish of the City of New York, in the county of New York, in the State of New York, do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, and served as such* to the end of the War.
[Decorative flourish]
at which period I was a Major in the Second regiment of the New York line.
And I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates (commonly called commutation certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years' full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress, of the 22d of March, 1783, instead of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October, 1780.
And I do further declare, that I have received of the United States as a pensioner since the 3d day of March, 1820.
[Decorative flourish]
Witness my hand, this Ninth day of June , in the year One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
Nicholas Fish
Before me, Richard Peter Rowan of the City and in the county of New York , in the State of New York , personally appeared, this day, Major Morton and Colonel  Thompson , of the said county, who did severally make oath that Nicholas Fish , by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand, this 9 th day of June in the year 1828 -
R Peter
I, Nicholas Fish , Clerk of the Court of the county of New York , in the State of New York , do hereby certify, that Richard Peter Rowan , before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York, and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this Ninth day of June 1828
[Signature]

No 337 Elizabeth Fish, widow of Nicholas.
Major 24/1
11/1
Act 3 Feb 1833
Shawper annuum Comg 3 Feb. 1833
(see husband's papers under act 15 May 1828, No 57.)
Mr City,
Hon Mr Fish U.S. Senator New York
March 2/53
Application of Elizabeth Fish of the City of New York Widow of Col. Nicholas Fish deceased, for a Pension under the Act of February 3. 1853.
Mr Mayor
presented by Hamilton Fish -
Mr Cole.

Superior Court of the City of New York,
In the matter of the application of Elizabeth Fish of the City of New York widow of Colonel Nicholas Fish, late of the same City, an Officer of the Revo- lutionary Army, for a Pension under the Act of Congress passed February 3 d 1853.
State of New York } ss: City and County of New York }
On this Nineteenth day of March in the year One thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before the Superior Court of the City of New York, Elizabeth Fish a resident of the City and County of New York aged seventy eight years who, being duly sworn, according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the bene- fit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress pas- sed 3 d February 1853, viz- That she is a widow of Nicholas Fish deceased who was a Major in the New York line of the Revolutionary Army during the greater part of the War, and who was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel toward the close of the War- That ac- cording to the best of deponents knowledge and belief, the said Nicholas Fish was a resident of the City of New York at the time he entered the said Army, and was first commissioned in the Army on or about the month of April 1776, and that he continued in the service until the close of the War- That she has un- derstood from her said husband and from others, and believes that the said Nicholas Fish was engaged in the Battle of Long Island in August 1776, in the Battle of Monmouth in June 1778, in the engagements at Saratoga which resulted in the capture of Bur- goyne, in the siege of Yorktown, and the capture of Lord Cornwallis- That the said Nicholas Fish was a Pensioner under the Act of May 1828, at the rate of

six hundred dollars per annum and that to the best of her knowledge and belief he presented to and filed in the War Department at Washington proofs of his service in the Army of the Revolution so as to entitle him to the pension under the said last mentioned act. She further states that her husband the said Nicholas Fish died in the City of New York on the twentieth day of June One thousand eight hundred and thirty three, and that shortly after his death she presented her claim and received from the Department the balance of the Pension of her said husband, which had accrued from the preceding day of payment up to the day of his death. She further declares that she was married to the said Nicholas Fish on the Thirtieth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and three, in St. Marks Church in the City of New York. She further states that she is now a widow and has never been married except to the said Nicholas Fish. And for further proof both as to the service of her said husband and of her own marriage with him and of his death she refers to the proofs on file in the Department at Washington, accompanying the application of her said husband for a pension under the said Act of 1828, and her own application in 1833 for the balance of his said pension accrued up to the Twentieth day of June 1833, the date of his death, which she desires may be considered as part of the proofs submitted in support of this application.
Subscribed and sworn to in open Court in the Superior Court of the City of New York on the day and year above written, before
Eliz th Fish
Elijah Olaine one of the Justices

State of New York City and County of New York } ss
On this nineteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty three before the Superior Court of the City of New York personally appear- ed the Reverend Henry Anthon of the said City, Doctor of Divinity, who being duly sworn according to law, on his oath saith that he is the Rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Mark in the Bowery in the said City and that he has been such Rector for upwards of six- teen years last past. That as such Rector he has charge of the Parish Register of the said Church, and that upon due examination he finds that no entry of any marriage has been made in the Church Register of St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, in the City of New York, earlier than the Twenty seventh day of April in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventeen and that no register of Marriages appears to have been kept during the Rectorship of the first Rector, the late Rev d William Har- ris of the said City. And that he has been for very many years acquainted with the above named Elizabeth Fish, formerly Elizabeth Stuyvesant, now present in this Court, and that he knows her to have been the wife of the said Nicholas Fish, and that she now is the widow of the said Nicholas Fish.
Subscribed and Sworn to in open Court, in the Superior- Court of the City of New York on the day and year above writ- ten, before
Henry Anthon
Elijah D. Pearce one of the Justices

State of New York } ss. City and County of New York }
On this nineteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty three before the Superior Court of the City of New York personally appeared Elizabeth S. Chandler a resident of the said City, who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath say that she was present in St. Marks Church in the Bowery in the said City on the Thirtieth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and three, and did then and there witness the Rev'd William Harris Rector of said Church join in marriage according to the Rites of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Nicholas Fish and Elizabeth Stuyvesant, both residing in the said City of New York. I do further certify that this marriage was the first celebrated in the said Church after its completion for Divine Worship.
Subscribed and Sworn to in } Open Court in the Superior } Court of the City of New York } on the day and year above } written, before }
Eliz th S. Chandler
Eliz th D. Davis one of the Justices etc
State of New York } ss City and County of New York }
On this nineteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty three before the Superior Court of the City of New York personally appeared Daniel De Roy a resident of the said City who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say that he is personally and well acquainted with Elizabeth Fish now present in this Court and that he was also personally and well acquainted

ted (during his life time) with Nicholas Fish named in the foregoing declaration of the said Elizabeth Fish, that deponent had been acquainted with the said Nicholas Fish and Elizabeth Fish his wife from his boyhood, that in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, he married the daughter of the said Nicholas and Elizabeth Fish, that deponent knows the said Elizabeth to have been the wife, and to be at present the widow of the said Nicholas Fish, and that for at least            years before his death (in 1833) the deponent was personally acquainted with the said Nicholas Fish and knew him to have been an Officer in the Revolutionary Army, both from general reputation and from particular declarations as well of the father of this deponent, who had been a school mate of the said Nicholas Fish, and an intimate friend up to the time of his death, as also of other persons who were about contemporaries of the said Nicholas Fish and who were reputed to have served in the Army of the Revolution, as to have been familiar with the times and the persons of the Revolutionary War.
Subscribed and sworn to in open court in the Superior Court of the City of New York on the day and year above written before
Elijah D. Pierce one of the Justices, &c
Francis LeRoy

State of New York } ss City and County of New York }
I, Robert G. Campbell Clerk of the Superior Court of the City of New York do hereby certify that the said Court is a Court of record of general common law jurisdiction; that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Elizabeth Fish of the said City, widow of Colonel Nicholas Fish, deceased, for a Pension under the Act of Congress of February 3 d 1853. And further that Elijah Paine whose name is subscribed to the jurats subjoined to the foregoing several depositions is a judge of the said Court and that the signatures attached to the said several jurats are in the proper hand writing and are the genuine signatures of the said judge.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 19 th day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
Robt. G. Campbell Clerk

Rev WIDOW, & Co.
File No. 8809
Elizabeth Fish
Wid
Nicholas Fish
Major: Rev. War
Act: July 3?  1853
Index:—Vol. A , Page 237
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Stroups November 14. 1854
Hon L. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions in -
Sir
M rs Elizabeth Fife was entitled to a Pension of six hundred dollars per annum, under the Act of February 1853 as the widow of Col Nicholas Fife of the Revolutionary Army.
She died on the sixth of September last, not having drawn the Pension due on the 4 th of that month. I am her Executor, shall prove the Will & receive letters Testamentary from the Surrogate of this County.
I beg to be informed what steps must be taken to receive the balance of the Pension due.
With much respect
Your obed Servt William Fife

Annapolis May 12. 1853
Hon. L. P. Waldo Commr. of Pensions. Sir
Sir
I received yesterday, under cover addressed to me, a certificate that Mrs. Elizabeth Dick widow of Nicholas Dick n. is entitled to a Pension under the 2 d section of the Act of February last, commencing on the 3 rd of February, 1853.
I beg to inquire whether the Department has decided that the Pensions granted under this 2 d section, commence only from the date of the Act: that Widows entitled to Pensions under this section, are not entitled in the same manner as those who were married prior to January 1800, & who receive Pensions from March 1848.
Very Respectfully Your obed Servt Hamilton Fish

Brief in the case of Elizabeth Fish, widow of Nicholas New York County and State of New York act 3 Feb. 1853
Claim, ("original," or "for increase." )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a seaman under the act of 13 May 1828 at $600 per annum. Marriage found by living witnesses credible
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent New Hamilton Fish, U.S. Senator, New York
J. C. C. Examining Clerk.

No of orig Payment 51
60.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
14. June 1828.
Nicholas Fish ————— of the City ————— in the County of and ————— in the State of New York ————— has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war,
at which period he was a Major — in the Second regiment of the New York line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the re- solve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, Nothing. ————— dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary, A. Dickinson.
See Misc. File No 8,809
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
June 17. 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Nicholas Fish Major in the New York line, amounting to Three Thousand dollars.
It further appears that Nicholas Fish now is now on the pension list of the any agency now and has been since the Third March 1826 at the rate of  now .
John Hagan Secy

State of New York } ss: City and County of New York }
On this eighteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty three before me Elijah Munn one of the Justices of the Superior Court of the City of New York — personally appear- ed Catherine L. Stuyvesant a resident of the said City who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath say that she is personally and well acquaint- ed with Elizabeth Fish, and was present in St. Marks Church in the Bowery in said City on the thirtieth day of April in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and three, and did then and there witness the Rev. William Harris, Rector of said Church join in marriage according to the Rites of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Nicholas Fish and Elizabeth Stuyvesant both residing in the said City of New York, and the parties to said marriage were the first celebrated in the said Church, with its con- parson in Divine Service. And this deponent further saith that the said Elizabeth Fish and Elizabeth Stuyvesant are one and the same person.
Sworn before me this Cath o L. Stuyvesant. 18 th day of March 1853 Elijah Munn one of the Justices of the Superior Court of the City of New York
State of New York } ss: City and County of New York }
On this eighteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty three before me Elijah Munn one of the Justices of the Superior Court of the City of New York — personally appear- ed Mary Bleeker — a resident of the said City who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath say that she is personally and well ac- quainted with Elizabeth Fish, and was present in St. Marks Church in the Bowery in said City on the thirtieth day of April in the year of Our Lord

One thous and eight hundred and three, and did then and there witness the Rev. William Harris Rec- tor of said Church join in Marriage, according to the Rites of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Nicholas Fish and Elizabeth Stuyvesant, both residing in the said City of New York; I do further certify that this marriage was the first celebrated in the said Church after its completion for Divine Worship, and that on this occasion the undersigned acted as a Bridesmaid of the said Elizabeth Stuyvesant. And this deponent further saith that the said Elizabeth Fish and Elizabeth Stuyvesant are one and the same person.
Sworn before me this 18 th day of March 1853
Eliza D. Prince one of the Justices of the Superior Court of the City of New York
Mary Bleeker
City & County of New York ss. I certify that on this 18 th day of March 1853 the above named Catharine L. Stuyvesant & Mary Bleeker respectively subscribed and made oath to the above affidavits at their respective places of residence in my presence, each of them being too aged and infirm to attend the court for that purpose.
Eliza D. Prince one of the Justices of the Superior Court of the City of New York